President Clinton announced measures today to reduce outbreaks of listeriosis, caused by a food-borne bacterium, including a requirement that food processors systematically test their plants for it.
Health chiefs are to warn Britain's 2 million students about the dangers of meningitis in a bid to reduce outbreaks of the deadly infection on campuses.
The cull aims to reduce outbreaks of TB in dairy and beef herds, which led to the slaughter of 28,000 cattle in England last year.
Although it is at an early stage, the development of antiviral drugs against Ebola and Marburg virus entry might prove essential to reduce outbreak-associated fatality rates through post-exposure treatment of both suspected and confirmed cases.
We expect that the application of this novel vaccine in the near future will greatly decrease the virus load in the environment and reduce outbreaks of DEV in ducks.
Stepping gingerly into a long-running controversy that has embroiled farmers, conservation groups, and United Kingdom science advisers, a team from the U.K. Medical Research Council reported yesterday that systematic culling of badgers does reduce outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in British cattle, but not enough to justify the cost of the cull.
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A decrease in the carriage through vaccination with a conjugate vaccine could help reduce outbreaks of epidemics of meningitis in the meningitis belt.
The aim of the project is to provide long-term weather forecasts to medical officials in Africa to help reduce outbreaks of meningitis.
However, discovery of genetic markers linked to disease resistance offers the potential to use marker-assisted selection to increase resistance and reduce outbreaks.
